bitcoin

This is a fairly new development, but if the infrastructure for minting, buying and selling matures and a Bitcoin NFT market grows, it's going to be deflationary for Bitcoin as coins get minted, they become collectables and don't circulate/trade as unminted coins do.

I missed this story back in April of last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61565485 I'm guessing that CAR was hoping to attract foreign investment with the move.

Decent effort at addressing the issue, it does miss a few important points (I will elaborate later if folks are interested): https://internationalman.com/articles/3-things-most-people-dont-know-about-gold-bitcoin-and-money/

Trading at 40% of NAV because parent company possibly in trouble for shenanigans. https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-01-13/Grayscale-slams-SEC-refusal-to-approve-Bitcoin-ETF-as-illogical-arbitrary-and-discriminatory.html See also...

Here's the latest from Jacob Dreizin. It's a packed edition. I started reading his blog for the Ukraine coverage and normally would post this in the Ukraine thread but this edition covers much more than the Ukraine situation. I'm not a fanboy for Elon Musk. I like what he's doing at Twitter...

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bitcoin-meltdown-in-progress/

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wealthy-chinese-execute-fire-escape-plans-after-xi-secures-third-term

https://www.cnet.com/culture/features/north-koreas-crypto-hackers-are-paving-the-road-to-nuclear-armageddon/ North Korea's Crypto Hackers Are Paving the Road to Nuclear Armageddon North Korea has quietly become a cryptocurrency superpower. It has stolen billions in bitcoin and ether and is...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/09/el-salvador-makes-history-as-worlds-first-country-to-make-bitcoin-legal-tender/ El Salvador dropped the bomb. Wow.

Came across a few videos of this guy shooting bitcoins in a variety of calibers. Saw the title of this one & had to check it out. As the saying goes, caveat emptor!:snidely: . (BitCoin)They faked a fake coin.- UGEtube . Hey bug, I know this isn't a youtube link, but is there a way to get...

Hello, I need advice. Hope somebody can help me here. I'm experienced forex trader and precious metals investor. 4 month ago I joined a company that provides oil, gold, real-estate investments and clickbank/cpa offers business systems. After making research, I found out that it cooperates with...

... blockchain.info (one of the major players in BTC) has been having problems over the past day or so. Just when I wanted to try out "2 Factor Authentication" (where in addition to a password, you receive a short message on your "device" as kind of a second password). 2FA makes a wallet...

... Lots of math, but most of it is not too bad, although I have not reviewd the link to "elliptic curve cryptography" yet... Prime Number Factorization / PGP "hashing functions" (yow!) Here's one (output): 0cb03ee037b2139b6b3c58160c9bb1dd6ba6e1b11d965df4d2427be6e6f5faa5 from input...

... Will I get the "Dumbass of the Week" award for trying to buy a 0.25 oz Gold Eagle with BTC? Barron's columnist Randall W. Forsyth wrote an influential column on BTC this weekend, Wall Street is well-aware of this... And my virtual friend "Bitcoin Insider" answers more of my questions...

... I have been emailing back and forth with a real live "Bitcoin Insider" who really seems to know his stuff. He's been giving me real insights into the BTC realm. China and the USA. Getting BTC and/or cash for them. And links for the curious to explore. http://tinyurl.com/kl2lavr A...

Hi, forgive my naivety, but I am curious about Bitcoin. I know I can "mine" through a program on my machine - from what I understand. How long does it take? I work a lot in my office... prolly 10+ hours a day, so the electricity bill shouldn't be a major issue. I guess my machine works...

http://www.comparegoldandsilverprices.com/bitcoin-banned-in-thailand/

Did you find out? http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_07_24/Virtual-currency-Bitcoin-caught-up-in-landmark-investment-fraud-5274/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324144304578624221093071466.html (I know these news don't tell us everything about the bitcoin, but still... it's ugly...

Discussing the advances and new investments ;

SwissAustrian - I think it would be more fair to say BC's supply growth is artificially pre-determined rather than artificially managed. (The 'certainty' and clarity about future supply growth is an advantage imo) Imo PM's are not valuable because of their scarcity or the difficulty of...